The second-best thing about the Winter Classic: speculating about the location of future Winter Classics. The "D.C. area" is locked in for 2015, but after that, all bets are off. Reddit Hockey's atomicbolt has a wishlist, and it looks preeeeeeetty good:

— It's tough to find fault with the St. Louis game, other than that the Blues would probably be wearing dark jerseys. The Blackhawks are due to play in another Classic, and the Blues have done enough to host one of their own. A Busch alternative, though: Notre Dame Stadium.

— Same goes for the Avs; by 2017, the Matt Duchene-Nathan MacKinnon-Gabriel Landeskog-Ryan O'Reilly core will be in its prime, and the mile-high stuff would make for an interesting (and quickly overdone) story line. The league could find a better opponent than the Red Wings, though; Detroit isn't going to play in a third Classic so quickly. Those Colorado Rockies jerseys look awesome.

— No team has campaigned for a Classic like the Wild, and Minnesota should host one sooner rather than later. It's the State of Hockey, like the marketing campaign says. The Golden Gophers' football stadium seats nearly 51,000 people so it's big enough, and it's hosted hockey already. There's also the Stars' connection to Minnesota.